Six Tide players, three Tigers make first team on Phil Steele's preseason All-SEC

Reuters PicturesJulio Jones and Mark Ingram were named first-team preseason All-Americans by Phil Steele.Yes, it's only May. And no, they don't mean anything. But you still want to see an early preseason All-SEC team, don't you?

Six Alabama players and three Auburn standouts headlined Phil Steele's preseason All-SEC team, released Thursday. The teams will be included in the upcoming Phil Steele's 2010 College Football Preview magazine.

Ingram and Jones were also selected as first-team preseason All-Americans by the publication, joining fellow SEC stars A.J. Green and Drew Butler of Georgia and Patrick Peterson of LSU. Barron and Hightower were second-team All-American picks, Dareus was a third-teamer and Ziemba was a fourth-team selection.

Six other Alabama players and eight other Tigers were listed on the publication's second, third and fourth All-SEC teams. Selected as second-teamers were Alabama's Greg McElroy, James Carpenter and Josh Chapman and Auburn's Mario Fannin, Josh Bynes and Neiko Thorpe.

Thrid-team choices were Auburn's Ryan Pugh and Mike Blanc, while listed on the fourth team were Tigers Cameron Newton, Mike Berry and Wes Byrum and Alabama's Trent Richardson, William Vlachos and Courtney Upshaw.

Interestingly, Newton was not the only newcomer on the list. True freshman running back Marcus Lattimore of South Carolina was a third-team selection, chosen ahead of Richardson and Vanderbilt's record-breaking all-purpose star, Warren Norman.

You can see Phil Steele's entire preseason All-SEC and All-American teams here.